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I wish my rig was Hardcore,

I have met more than one guy like that in my life. I used to humor them, not anymore I ask for reasons when they can't give me a good one I tell them why they are wrong. This usually leads to a well I didn't get stuck this one place in my whatever when this rig with lockers couldn't make it at all. My repsonse to this is something along the lines of, great jerkoff you are out there tearing up ground cause you think you are cool, guys like you are getting all my trails closed. This almost always turns them to apologetic mode. Sometimes not but most of the time.

Fortunately my brain is full of useless numbers (well usefull if you are 4wd nut) and if they know just enough I can usually throw some numbers out there that confuses the heck out of em. Funny when this happens
 
I'm about over taking a car to a show....you get a lot of people that really like to complement, but too many that just want to pick your car apart, My car is far from original, and because its a Vette, everyone thinks it should be.
Just because so many people ask if its the original engine...after having it decked when the machine work was done, I stamped fu*k off on the engine pad. I've had a few lookers at car shows looking for the numbers, then they stand up straight and look at me with a very puzzled look on their face.....yep thats there for you pal.
 
76zimmer said:
I'm about over taking a car to a show....you get a lot of people that really like to complement, but too many that just want to pick your car apart, My car is far from original, and because its a Vette, everyone thinks it should be.
Just because so many people ask if its the original engine...after having it decked when the machine work was done, I stamped fu*k off on the engine pad. I've had a few lookers at car shows looking for the numbers, then they stand up straight and look at me with a very puzzled look on their face.....yep thats there for you pal.:thumb:
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there fixed it for ya.
 
Thanks Brett, I think it needs the double bird flip off fingers to punctuate it....
 
76zimmer said:
I'm about over taking a car to a show....you get a lot of people that really like to complement, but too many that just want to pick your car apart, My car is far from original, and because its a Vette, everyone thinks it should be.
Just because so many people ask if its the original engine...after having it decked when the machine work was done, I stamped fu*k off on the engine pad. I've had a few lookers at car shows looking for the numbers, then they stand up straight and look at me with a very puzzled look on their face.....yep thats there for you pal.
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i find it really depends on what show it is.... your always gonna get douchebag's... a fun show, the cool far outweigh the asshats, making it worth it.... but i have been to some where a large percentage where asshats, thats no fun... :(


not that i'm a regular at car shows.. haven't been to even any of the local ones in 3, 4 yrs... and haven't had a car in one in probably 7 or 8....
 
It was a great show overall besides the one asshat! I got lots of compliments on my rig and lots of people wanted to discuss what had been done to it.

I wish I would have won an award, but I lost to a TJ bolt on build and a Store bought buggy and a Dodge Ram from biggaytruckland :haha: 15" of lift on 44's with no front driveshaft :doah:

No surprise though people vote for eye catching. Mine isn't "pretty" by most standards, but it was the best built 4x4 there :wink1:

It was my first show, but I had a blast despite no trophy :D
 
Thats cool, the fun and your own satisfaction makes it cool. I've had little kids (boys and girls) come up and ogle my car, and when I ask them if they'd like to sit in it, they get a shocked, "pee my pants" excited look on their face and they look at mom or dad to see if its ok. When they get in it and grab the wheel, I'm pretty sure they'll be a hotrodder someday.
 
last fun show i took my truck too all these girls came up and were saying how much they loved the truck. they then proceeded to hand their cameras to their boyfriends to take pictures of them with the truck. the boyfriends werent too pleased, i dont blame them, they all rolled up in fart can hondas...who wants to see that haha.


zimmer, awesome about the f*ck off plate haha love it
 
I like going to the shows, before I started working up here in AK I would take the Blue Step-side and My brown K20 to all the local shows. I won a few trophys for best pickup, which was really cool considering all the really nice 50's vintage trucks that go . I always got lots of compliments, never had any dickheads at all.

I like to go to the shows were the contestants Judge, not the peoples choice shows.
 
yellowK20 said:
I like going to the shows, before I started working up here in AK I would take the Blue Step-side and My brown K20 to all the local shows. I won a few trophys for best pickup, which was really cool considering all the really nice 50's vintage trucks that go . I always got lots of compliments, never had any dickheads at all.

I like to go to the shows were the contestants Judge, not the peoples choice shows.
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Ditto, usually the contestants have an idea of what it takes to get a vehicle in show condition.
Most popular usually seems to be something very unique. A buddy of mine has a 29 Model T truck on a 78 K10 frame. He painted the truck cab a real nice candy tangerine color, but the frame and running gear is run of the mill 1/2 ton with 4" lift stuff. He rattle canned everything black underneath, the engine is a oil leaker and the exhaust is a flexpipe thrown together mix and match crap patch job. But the truck cab looks great, and he has 37's with nice shiny wheels so he wins a ton of public choice awards with it.
 
The only time I ever really get the treatment like you got is when i'm on the trail, and its always been from the "bolt-on/store bought" Jeep crowd. the **** talk usually stops when my Longbed "ranch truck" walks an obstacle or mud hole that they can't hack

oh BTW I think your K5 and your Crew Cab are both BADASS !!!
 
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My experience with "Dick" didn't come at a car show, it came at a 4 wheelin club meeting. I'd been in the process of swapping a 6.2 into my Jimmy, and had been showing up to the previous three or four meetings with the wife's ride.

I finally got it together and brought it out to the next meeting. 40's, new 60/14 in, 6.2 swapped in. No great powerhouse, but it will run upside down and with the manual tranny will wheel very elegantly and reliably. Much moreso than average.

All meeting long...Cummins this, Cummins that, 6.2= boat anchor, blah blah blah. Apparently nobody noticed the one ton stuff, or the new 40's.

That was one of the last meetings I went to, and I don't think I ever wheeled with those guys again.

Rene
 
MTBLAZER89 said:
This was a contestants judge type of show.
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another reason to knock you down then. I've seen some of the contestants start doing that while a crowd is looking your vehicle over, so they may change their votes. I've also seen trailered in cars brought to a local 5-700 car show, and win a trophy, then load it back on the trailer to take it home to the garage. 99% of the cars at this show drive em in, and you can tell by road rash, dust etc. that they are driven cars, no trailer queens. Also seen a group of guys hanging out and all vote for one car of their group to tilt the number of votes to their favor. You can pick up on these things when you see the same cars at all the shows within a 50 mile radius.
 
yellowK20 said:
The only time I ever really get the treatment like you got is when i'm on the trail, and its always been from the "bolt-on/store bought" Jeep crowd. the **** talk usually stops when my Longbed "ranch truck" walks an obstacle or mud hole that they can't hack

oh BTW I think your K5 and your Crew Cab are both BADASS !!!
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Thanks! Ya thats why I just kept telling him to bring his pickup out. I don't brag about my rig much cause I know what it can do and so do most guys in my club, but I also know I can drive an obstacle one weekend and winch it the next depending on weather, trail change, bad line etc.

tRustyK5 said:
My experience with "Dick" didn't come at a car show, it came at a 4 wheelin club meeting. I'd been in the process of swapping a 6.2 into my Jimmy, and had been showing up to the previous three or four meetings with the wife's ride.

I finally got it together and brought it out to the next meeting. 40's, new 60/14 in, 6.2 swapped in. No great powerhouse, but it will run upside down and with the manual tranny will wheel very elegantly and reliably. Much moreso than average.

All meeting long...Cummins this, Cummins that, 6.2= boat anchor, blah blah blah. Apparently nobody noticed the one ton stuff, or the new 40's.

That was one of the last meetings I went to, and I don't think I ever wheeled with those guys again.

Rene
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All the guys in my club are pretty cool. We have out fair share of bolt on Jeep type guys, but most everybody actually wheels so it's just fun.

76zimmer said:
another reason to knock you down then. I've seen some of the contestants start doing that while a crowd is looking your vehicle over, so they may change their votes. I've also seen trailered in cars brought to a local 5-700 car show, and win a trophy, then load it back on the trailer to take it home to the garage. 99% of the cars at this show drive em in, and you can tell by road rash, dust etc. that they are driven cars, no trailer queens. Also seen a group of guys hanging out and all vote for one car of their group to tilt the number of votes to their favor. You can pick up on these things when you see the same cars at all the shows within a 50 mile radius.
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Ya he was the only guy all day that had anything negative to say. I would say the show is mainly geared toward Classic resto's, Muscle car builds, and then the late model sports car guys. The 4x4 category doesn't get much attention so who knows how many "voters" just wrote down #1 and #2 without ever walking over to us in out little corner in the back..
 
76zimmer said:
I've had little kids (boys and girls) come up and ogle my car, and when I ask them if they'd like to sit in it, they get a shocked, "pee my pants" excited look on their face and they look at mom or dad to see if its ok. When they get in it and grab the wheel, I'm pretty sure they'll be a hotrodder someday.
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This is what it is all about right there. First car show I ever went too some guy let me sit in his vette let me touch it look it over told me all about it. He was the only vette guy there without velvet ropes around his car. I was 8 and had already fallen in love with vettes.
 
tRustyK5 said:
All meeting long...Cummins this, Cummins that, 6.2= boat anchor, blah blah blah. Apparently nobody noticed the one ton stuff, or the new 40's.
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One of the main reasons I want to put a 6.5 in my other blazer, so poeple will ask me why not a cummins?

Of course I do want to put a cummins in my tow rig.

So Rene why not a cummins in the "stock":haha: rig?????
 
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